Staff editor-in-chief for The Restorationist.
Comment
Britain's chief two-tier police officer believes he possesses unbounded authority, as a social worker, to pre-adjudicate "situations where language may be debated in academic or historical terms" using Chinese-style live facial recognition. For a boss who openly states her goal is a "panopticon."
Opinion
Bankruptcy is routine. Billions vanish into solar farms and speculative property. Children's services fail. Bins go uncollected. And the people responsible move on to the next six-figure post. Today, you have one lever. Here are ten reasons to pull it. Plus one for luck.
Comment
What will it actually take for this ghastly cardboard zombie to resign? As wipeout in the May 7 local elections approaches (those he tried to block), we can only hope an unprecedented bloody nose focuses this grey man's mind. If he does not dream, does he not experience shame?
Letters
The Restorationist is fortunate to have an exceptionally intelligent and perceptive audience, as modest as it may be. And they don't shy away from explaining in detail how we got it wrong.
Editorial
UK ammunition stocks last eight days. The Crown Court backlog runs to 2030. The NHS maintenance backlog rose 16% in a year. Energy projects wait 15 years for a grid connection. Two weeks documenting failure and concealment. Now: what happens when there's nothing left to hide behind.
Editorial
The Post Office. Rotherham. Mid Staffordshire. Grenfell. Carillion. The Electoral Commission hacked for a year. HMS Dragon. Dentists fleeing the NHS while the state imports replacements. The Lords swelling as it pretends to shrink. The watchdogs failed everywhere. Next: the lies.
Strategy
You don't win British general elections by getting the most votes. You win them by optimising your spread and strategically contesting enough open battlefields. 650 available; 326 to win. You can't win them all. The Restorationist's Colonel Blotto dashboard is a way of learning and practicing FPTP.
Editorial
This week Canada's police, and the world's press, thought an evil teenage murderer's "rights" to dress in women's clothes and pretend he was female more important than the truth his mental illness led to the killing of his mother, brother, a teacher, and five innocent children. Enough is enough.
Editorial
A century of surrender. A nation on its knees. An administrative state so vast, so entangled, so perfectly evolved for its own preservation, most have concluded it cannot be fought. They are wrong. Burn it to the ground. Ahead, not merely our finest hour, but our greatest hour of a thousand years.
Editorial
A century ago, the Great War birthed an administrative state which never surrendered its wartime powers. We declare our independence—not from the Crown, but from the technocratic regime which governs without consent, rules without law, and perceives us with contempt.
Editorial
For a century, the British have been governed without consent. Our votes ignored, our preferences overruled, our patience exploited. The new year offers what every new year offers: permission to begin again. This is a call not to revolution, but to something the administrative state fears far more.
Editorial
SEO analysis describes the Restorationist's "in-house" style as "dry, surgical, British, and quietly devastating." This Christmas, in that vein, we humbly present our first annual collection of the worst 25 moments when British politics selected itself out.